Great performance, little cost

"I spent a bit of time today analyzing the "Slashdot Effect".  Yesterday the web site www.kerneltrap.org got featured on Slashdot which spiked it's traffic by six fold.  I was lucky enough to get performance metrics and put into a 3 page "Performance of Open Source Portal Software" guide.  You'll see the PDF tomorrow or later tonight.   At it's peak this site was sustaining 100 hits per minute.  Never crashed.  Now the shocker ... Single processor PII 300 mhz server.  512 megs of RAM, Linux, MySQL, one box running DB, Web Server, Portal/Content Management Software.  Every single page view was served out of the database (Drupal's cache optimization was turned on). [The FuzzyBlog!]"

I'm VERY interested in this post by Scott. I'm looking at software to use for creating "virtual communities" and had already stumbled on Drupal. It looks like it covers the right feature set. I haven't actually installed it or looked at the code. Then I saw a tangential reference to it by Scott yesterday and then this post today. Amazing stuff. I'll have to probe further.

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categories: Virtual Communities